There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Friday, September 25, 2015

Sirloin Beef, Smashed Potatoes and Cabbage Gratin

Sep 24 2015

Monday I could not find a beef brisket flat like I wanted so
I bought this 4.75 pound beef sirloin tritip roast. Don’t know why they called
it tritip; maybe because it looked to me like 3 attached muscles. I don’t like
to buy meat in packages since they usually hide some bad stuff. This one had
some gristle and fat wrapped in. I trimmed away about ¾ pounds when I split the
roast.

The one piece was about 1.5 pounds and I placed it in some
Stubbs Beef Marinade overnight turning it 3 times. After marinating it I rolled
and tied it. The other piece looks like it will be good to smoke to rare then
thin slice for some Italian beef; I vacuum sealed it and froze.

Tuesday I got the roast on my Traeger; I did it on smoke for
45 minutes and then placed it on a rack in a roaster and poured in some beef
consume and eased up the temp to 300 deg. grill level. It took an hour 45
minutes total to get it to 130 deg. IT. After it cooled it went in the fridge.

Wednesday I went out to the Ford dealer to look at cars. I
ended up buying a 2015 Escape and we were able to pick it up at supper time so
the beef would wait until Thursday. It’s loaded with about all you could get on
it. We like driving it.

The wife was going to the High School soccer game to see the
grandson’s team run on the field with the big boys so we ate a little early.

I sliced up the roast and nuked some Dutch baby gold
potatoes I smashed them’ poured some melted butter over, seasoned with dried
garlic flakes, salt and pepper. I nuked about ¾ head of cabbage, dotted with
butter, added 2 Tbs. of flour a little sugar and salt. I poured about ¾ cup of
hot milk over and added some shredded sharp cheddar.

The potatoes and cabbage went in a 350 deg. oven for 45
minutes. I just nuked the sliced sirloin with some of the pan juice in the
microwave and served the wife and me with some toasted bread and butter. The
sirloin was about as tender as it gets and loved the Stubbs marinade. This was
the first time I had used his beef marinade. It is good and has a little heat.

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.